Media Violence And Youth

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Media Violence Effect on Youth
In today’s society media violence has significantly increased along with societal violence in youth. This has caused many dramatic issues within society how the youth is effected as they grow up in all of this. Many researchers have shown a lot of research in this area because the youth is the being future and with a corrupt youth there bound to be a corrupt future. Many things affect are kids even things we do not think is bad or even media violence, and combining this with a young mind and his friends minds can be a catastrophe in some cases. Along with this be a possibility there is even more things in the future and now that will worsen the effects and number of media violence we see in our daily lives. As
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Any disruption during this period can have some major effects on their future. The chart above gives examples on how children and are affected and what 's most affected.
Children in today’s society have shown many violent outbreaks and or depression throughout the years because of this “impact of media violence established years ago that young people exhibit attitude and behavior changes as a result of the images and messages that are shown” (Hogan). Due to these messages children tend to be more prone to aggressive outbreaks towards parents and/or guardians. These aggressive outbreaks have long term effects between the parents or guardians of the children which can cause disconnection at home between the two. With the disconnections the youth tend to be more likely to run away from home, affiliate with the wrong crowd which can affect their future and where they will end up in life. When this happens our society tends to fall apart, as it slowly doing so. Everyone is becoming slowly disconnected from real reality and becoming connected with virtual reality. The virtual reality consists mostly of media violence which relates back to a lot of crimes in today 's society. Although it may seem to make sense, data shows that youth violence has dropped 40% in the last decade. Which leads us into the fact that parents and/or guardians do not choose whether their children view violent media, but the adolescent
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There’s substantial evidence that media violence doesn’t affect the youth, but it actually causes release of anger or anxiety. Including the aspect of societal violence actually going down. "The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) welcomed the letter, noting that a growing body of research has found no link between media violence and violent crime. In fact, the letter acknowledged that as the popularity of video games has increased in recent decades, youth violence in the United States has decreased to 40-year lows" (target). This shows that not only does media violence increase but societal violence decreases and is actually at its very low point as of now. Not only has societal violence decrease but with this decrease is drug use which has dropped significantly in the past decade as well. Hence the research done proves that media violence affecting youth is very truthful in science but there are errors. Not only does it prove this but with societal violence

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